Vermont Nonprofit Navigator

Explore the organizations and people that power Vermont's $6.8 billion nonprofit economy.

By Andrea Suozzo of Seven Days

This tool was last updated in 2019. It is no longer being updated with new filings. For more info, contact: nonprofits@sevendaysvt.com.

Organizations are required to list board members, key employees and anyone making over $100,000 from this or a related organization.

By default, this table shows results from all filings. Select a year to narrow your search.

Name Year Title Compensation Other Compensation Organization
Dr Chris Dutton 2014 Director CENTRAL VERMONT MILK PRODUCERS ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED
Keith Sprague 2014 Vice Preside CENTRAL VERMONT MILK PRODUCERS ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED
Douglas P Giles 2014 Director CENTRAL VERMONT MILK PRODUCERS ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED
Emily Mason 2014 Vice President WOLF KAHN AND EMILY MASON FOUNDATION INC
Daniel E Hutner 2013 Tte/Asst Sec EXCELLENCE FOUNDATION INC
Eames Demetrios 2014 Chair CHARLES AND RAY EAMES HOUSE PRESERVATION FOUNDATION INC
Adelbert A Ames Iii 2014 Vice President JENCKES FOUNDATION INC
Patricia B Wilson 2014 Director JENCKES FOUNDATION INC
John Barstow 2014 Director Of Communic THE ORTON FAMILY FOUNDATION
Alece Montez-Griego 2014 Director Of Programs THE ORTON FAMILY FOUNDATION
Ethan Hausman 2014 Asst Treasurer R & R FOUNDATION INC
Jared Duval 2014 Director THE ORTON FAMILY FOUNDATION
Henry T Sorrell 2013 Secretary PECOR FAMILY FOUNDATION
Richard D Hausman 2014 Treasurer R & R FOUNDATION INC
Ingrid Broad 2014 Treasurer NELSON FAMILY FOUNDATION
Karl Miller 2013 Treasurer LAMSON HOWELL FOUNDATION INC
Stephen P Magowan 2013 Director CONCRETE FOUNDATION INC
Russell E Spring 2013 Gen. Manager CONCRETE FOUNDATION INC
Jonathan Hammond 2013 Hosmer Point Camp Di CONCRETE FOUNDATION INC
Susan K Grigg 2016 Vp/Secy/Trea S & C HARVEST FOUNDATION INC
Dan D Fraser 2014 Secretary SPORTS VENUE FOUNDATION
Raoul Birnbaum 2014 Director MATHEW & JOSEPHINE BIRNBAUM FOUNDATION
Lola Wangenen Phd 2015 President CLIO VISUALIZING HISTORY INC
Neil Mackey 2014 Vp COLUMBUS SMITH ESTATE TRUST INC
Anne Thrailkill 2014 Chairman COLUMBUS SMITH ESTATE TRUST INC

About this tool

As of May 2018, Vermont’s 6,044 nonprofits reported $6.8 billion in revenue and $13.2 billion in assets in their latest Internal Revenue Service filings. The federal Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that nearly 18 percent of the state’s workers are employed by 501c3s.

Organizations like ProPublica and Guidestar both offer excellent tools that open up public access to the information contained in IRS 990s, the financial reports nonprofits file annually. But we wanted to be able to dive a little deeper — to see, search, sort and filter the organizations and people that make up Vermont’s nonprofit ecosystem.

So we created this tool. Like dairy? Try searching for the Vermont Cheese Council. How about horses? Check out American Morgan Horse Association or Spring Hill Horse Rescue. You’ll also find the University of Vermont Medical Center, the Committee on Temporary Shelter and Middlebury College.

Then, read Give and Take, our series of stories on Vermont's nonprofit economy.

See something interesting? Want access to this data? Let us know!

About the data

To build a list of Vermont nonprofit organizations, we pulled state listings from the Internal Revenue Service.

Some Vermont nonprofits — about one-third — file digitally. That includes all of the state’s largest nonprofit organizations, like hospitals and colleges, plus many smaller ones. The IRS makes those filings available as XML files for public download, and tools like IRSx make it possible to understand what’s in those data files.

In cases where electronic filings weren’t available, we pulled in PDF versions from ProPublica’s API, so that we could get a better idea of the organizations we were missing.

In all, you’ll find more than 13,500 filings from nonprofit organizations in this database. However, there are some caveats. Not all nonprofits file annual financial reports — those with limited annual revenue, as well as ones that fall into religious, governmental or other exempt categories, are not required to file. And even when organizations file 990s, they don’t always do them right.